Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District of Columbia, news of the last Deficiency Bill's report to the Senate floor is treated as the year's best moment to buy a pint or more of hard liquor. Open house is declared in the Capitol from end to end. Even dignified Speaker Bankhead lets word get about that there is cracked ice in his office. Small groups of members gather chummily in cloakroom corners to sing the ancient adjournment favorite: There's Blood on the Saddle...
...This is crazy change-of-the-pocket procedure . . . The United States housing program is in no respect self-liquidating. . . ." He slammed a book down on the well-table so hard it bounced into the lap of grinning Joseph Shannon of Missouri. "My 18-months-old baby will be lucky to live to see one of these contracts consummated...
...when Parliament adjourned (after a reassuring speech by Prime Minister Chamberlain), it reassembled to be faced by the Czecho-Slovak Crisis, and many a member among loyal pro-Chamberlain Conservatives felt uneasily that it might return to face a comparable crisis this autumn, that such a crisis would be hard to explain to the voters at home...
Then he grew sarcastic. Personally, he said, as the Prime Minister scowled, he trusted Mr. Chamberlain's good faith, but "it will be a very hard thing for the Government to say to the House of Commons, 'Be gone. Run off and play. Take your gas masks with you. Don't worry about public affairs. Leave them to the gifted and experienced Ministers, who, so far as our defenses are concerned, landed us where we were landed in September...
...State, have long held that Catholic Action, which is the only Italian Papular organization not run by the State, is potentially a political, hence an opposition, party. Last week, a year almost to the day after the Pope's warning, Farinacci's group struck and struck hard. To save its life, Catholic Action perforce accepted the Fascist terms: terms which left it a purely religious organization...